Mucorales

Pin moulds at Jingera, NSW

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Identification history

Mucorales 28 Jun 2017 Heino
Mucorales 28 Jun 2017 Heino
Unverified 23 May 2017 CathB

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Not sure if this belongs in Fungi or Other Cryptogams. Substrate was possibly conifer cones of some sort, but hard to be sure. Seen in a couple of places along track.

3 comments

KenT wrote:
   24 May 2017
This looks like a fungus in the order Mucorales in the division Zygomycota. What you can see here appears to be the asexual phase of reproduction with the formation of spore containing sporangia (the black dots) on the top of sporangiophores (the stalks) emerging from the mass of white hyphae.
triplett wrote:
   5 Jul 2020
A mould which looks like this is extremely common in wet years at Woodlands Historic Park near Melbourne in Red Gum and Grey Box woodland. It grows exclusively on brown mushrooms - Cortinarious species I think.
triplett wrote:
   5 Jul 2020
Also, you often see small insects stuck to the sporangia.

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  • Mucorales Scientific name
  • Pin moulds Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 949.4m Recorded at altitude

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